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BURT — THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XI 269 



Type : stated by Leveille to be in De CandoUe Herb. ; Patouil- 

 lard notes a specimen of original locality and collector — Bahia, 

 Blanchet — in Museum of Paris Herb. 



Fructification very short-stipitate, most highly branched, 

 coriaceous, drying to tawny olive; branches solid, terete, dichot- 

 omous, with slender acute tips; spores hyaline, even, 3-4 |X 

 2-2| iJL, borne on simple basidia; underneath the hymenium 

 radiately branched organs like those of Asterostroma, pale- 

 colored, with slender, flexuous rays up to 30 X 3 m, are abundant 



Fig. 7. L. brasiliense. Antler-shaped and star- 

 shaped organs, a; spores, s. X 870. 



and form the outer part of the medullary part of the branches 

 and the somewhat spongy outer surface of the fructification 

 where the hymenium is absent. 



Fructifications 3-5 cm. high, about 3 cm. in diameter. 



On rotting wood. Cuba to Brazil. 



L. brasiliense is distinguished by its small, hyaline spores and 

 by the brownish, antler-shaped and star-shaped organs, the 

 latter suggestive of those of Asterostroma, which are abundant 

 underneath the hymenium and form the sterile surface else- 

 where. 



Specimens examined: 

 Cuba: C. Wright (in Curtis Herb., under the name Thelephora 

 brasiliensis L6v.) ; C. Wright, 831, under the name Lach- 

 nodadium furcellatum (in Curtis Herb, and in Mo. Bot. 

 Card. Herb., 43838). 



2. L. cartilagineum Berk. & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 

 lo: 330. 1868; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 739. 1888; Patouillard, 

 Jour, de Bot. 3:26. pl.l.f.4. 1889. Plate 5, fig. 2. 



Illustrations: Patouillard, loc. cit. 



Type: in Kew Herb, and Curtis Herb. 



